Boating in a Portrait | Gianfranco Campolucci: “Lamborghini came to test one of their offshore engines in my shop in Chiavari. That’s how I became a pilot”

Boating in a Portrait | Davide Besana: “I suggested cartoons on sailing, but at that time it was considered crazy. Now stories and drawings of the sea are successful”

Davide Besana, journalist, writer, cartoonist and illustrator, but first and foremost, sailor, shares with us how he brought boating and drawing together and his relationship with the sea

Boating in a Portrait | Enrico Franchetti: “I unite my passion of building carbon fibre masts with sailing”

Enrico Franchetti is a Genoese sailor and founder of Maxspar, a company making large scale masts in carbon fibre using modern construction techniques

Boating in a Portrait |Giuseppe Di Capua: “As a child, I was always on the beach and I saw the shipyards building skiffs. Skiffs from Lavagna were famous throughout Liguria.”

Giuseppe Di Capua began his career in boat construction working as an errand boy in Lavagna, until he became a master craftsman, caretaker of the knowledge and traditions of the trade

Boating in a Portrait | Agostino Sommariva: “I discovered sailing thanks to my father’s passion for the sea. Now I am managing a business that is over 100 years old”

Agostino Sommariva has a full list of wins and titles earned while sailing. Today he makes extra virgin olive oil, continuing his family’s traditional business.

Boating in a Portrait | Olivia Lotti: “I was born and raised among boats. My relationship with the sea is symbiotic. I couldn’t survive without seeing it, or smelling it”

Olivia Lotti is the president for Porto Lotti, an exclusive tourist marina in the Far East of Liguria. She also created Tenuta La Ghiaia, where nature, cooking and wines come together in an oasis of beauty

Boating in a Portrait | Alberto Amico: “My father passed on his love for the sea with our boat outings. My family is the best crew”

Alberto Amico is the president and senior manager of the shipyard Amico & Co in Genoa, leader in the repair and refit of super yachts, and of the shipyard Amico Loano, two shipyards at the top of the refitting sector in the world.

Boating in a Portrait | Adriano Passeri: “My encounter with diving was at a young age and quite by chance. At 14 I tried an oxygen breathing apparatus and was fascinated”

Adriano “Dino” Passeri is a piece of professional diving history in Italy. He is the founder of Drafinsub, a leading Genoese company in diving works

Boating in a Portrait | Alessandro Campagna “Love for the sea has become a profession and gifts extraordinary stories”

Alessandro Campagna, sales manager for the Genoa Boat Show, shares how he discovered boating, the ties between Genoa and its Show and his relationship with the sea

Boating in a Portrait | Beatrice Parodi “I am closely tied to the Riviera dei Fiori and and proud of everything it represents.’

Beatrice Parodi, head of the Cozzi Parodi Group, shares her ties with the sea and local area, and the harbours and hotels she manages. She is the face of tourist accommodation in the Riviera dei Fiori.

Boating in a Portrait: people, stories and passion in a photograph

LN launches their new column “Boating in a Portrait” dedicated to the people, Ligurian or otherwise tied to our region, who have left their mark on the nautical industry.

Boating in a Portrait | Giangi Razeto “I’m a creative of the sea. If they took it away from me, I would lose my creativity.”

Giangiacomo Razeta, Giangi for his friends, is the creative behind the company F.lli Razeto & Casareto in Sori, makers of handles for vessels. This is how new products are created, in a mix of creativity and passion for the sea.

Boating in a Portrait | Giorgio Mussini: “The allure and elegance of a wooden boat has no equals”

In the 1950s Giorgio Mussini founded the company bearing his name making boats in wood and fibreglass. He is the founder of Utility Portofino

Boating in a Portrait | Barbara Amerio: “Sailing with reduced consumption and emissions is possible. And the market is proving us right”

The practicality of traditional artistry together with a strong experimental spirit. These are the characteristics of Amer Yachts – Gruppo Permare, a company in San Remo headed by Barbara Amerio, leader in yacht shipbuilding at an international level

Boating in a Portrait | Maurizio Bulleri “Put the cuffs down! Whether it is a dinghy or a 6-metre yacht I want to share my passion and desire for sailing”

Former motorboat champion and now the face of “The Boat Show”, Maurizio Bulleri tests the most beautiful boats in the world. On YouTube over 50 million people have seen his videos and his channel has over 130 thousand subscribers

Boating in a Portrait | Andrea Razeto “One of the best times of my life? Living on my boat for a few months while renovating my home”

The chief executive officer of Fratelli Razeto e Casareto, a company manufacturing locks, handles, and other accessories for boats and vessels, shares his ties to the sea and his work with Icomia, an international association for the nautical industry.

Boating in a Portrait | Giovanni Novi “That night that, at the Yacht Club, we turned on the lights in the municipal hall in Sydney just like Marconi.”

A man of finance, promoter of sailing among young people, so much so that he founded the Sail Training Association and organises regattas and gatherings, Giovanni Novi talks about his relationship with the sea and with sailing, on board the Chaplin, the family yacht donated to the Navy.

Boating in a Portrait | Emanuela Baglietto “The sea has always been in my eyes, ever since I was a child. And many of my designs are created on a pier beside the sea.”

The name of the architect, Emanuela Baglietto, is tied to an icon of excellence in Italian boating. Today, she works with the studio of Renzo Piano working on buildings, often overlooking the sea, with the same values transmitted from her family of shipbuilders.

Boating in a Portrait | Fabio Pozzo “The sea is a way of living, a state of being, not just a view”

Fabio Pozzo, journalist for La Stampa, has had the honour of bringing to a newspaper an entire page, and to the web, a channel, dedicated to the sea. At the heart are always the stories, protagonists, and passion.